fedora-release-$PRODUCT, /etc/issue, /etc/os-release, Per-Product Configs and more!

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On 07/03/2014 05:47 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:14:52PM +0200, Lennart Poettering
> wrote:
>>> In a sense, there's a certain amount of this definition that
>>> every Fedora install will have. The Products then add to this
>>> definition. A basic piece of it is mandatory, but the outer
>>> edges are add-ons.
>> I am not sure this is really what /etc/os-release is for. It's
>> for declaring operating system names and versions, not really for
>> containing a list of packages you have installed.
> 
> We're not (ultimately, at least), just talking about a list of
> packages. It is like a sub-version of the operating system. A
> "flavor", perhaps. Using a different ID and ID_LIKE=fedora seems a)
> far too heavy and b) expressive of a much larger difference.
> 

Well, given that the standard doesn't *really* have this level of
nuance, I'm inclined to agree with this approach.

So we'd have
ID=fedora-cloud
ID_LIKE=fedora

and so on. It doesn't really seem likely to cause too much confusion,
IMHO.



> I *do* like that you're planning to move this to /usr/lib. It never
> made sense to me as _configuration_.
> 
> 

Agreed
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